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You don't need to be a programmer or hire one - no language to learn, no plug-ins, no API. You might have a passion for creating finely crafted prose, or for telling stories using visual tools. Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery's expertise. Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too.
ReadWriteWeb
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
#140tc: Essential Tools of the Twitter Connoisseur
The 140tc focused on everything from Twitter basics to advanced tools and uses for business and beyond. Almost every presentation during the 140tc at least mentioned a Twitter tool, or ways to make our tweeting more efficient — I decided to round them all up into a nice package of awesomeness. Broback suggested some great search tools — some of which are free, some of which aren’t — that will up your game tenfold. TwapperKeeper may have a This is one of several posts covering TweetHouse’s 140 Twitter Conference that took place on March 8, 2010.
Lockergnome Blog Network
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
Small Business Web Directory Launches at SXSW
Companies like Batch Blue Software , Freshbooks , Mailchimp , Shoeboxed and Outright have been integrating APIs in order to help businesses flourish. If you were fiddling with multiple platforms to manage your finance, human resources and analytics tools before, the directory can help you fix this through third party service integration. Upon first glance we were skeptical. Generally when someone says they're launching a business directory it's an SEO play with little value to users.
ReadWriteWeb
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Twitter: A Marketer's Duct Tape
Almost every major media outlet is tweeting , the Apple App Store has over 100 Twitter applications, and there are over 100 other free tools that have already bubbled up.
The interfaces to the capability are simple and well defined in their Applications Programming Interface (API), which makes it easy to plug into their messaging capability.
There are many tools that can help you Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible , easily available, and cheap. Twitter shares all these attributes.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, April 9, 2009
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Google Launches Maps Data API
was expecting an API announcement and Google delivered one. Lior Ron and Steve Lee announced their Maps Data API , a service for hosting geodata. The Google Maps Data API allows client applications to view, store and update map data in the form of Google Data API feeds using a data model of features (placemarks, lines and shapes) and maps (collections of features).
The crowd at Where 2.0 As they describe it on the site:
OReilly Radar
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps
Online payment giant PayPal recently announced the PayPal X APIs, a new group of developer APIs designed to enable new applications that can more tightly integrate with PayPal services. To encourage developers to create some awesome applications with the APIs, PayPal is offering prizes $100,000 and $50,000 (in cash plus waived transaction fees) for the best new applications. Two enduring tenets of Web 2.0 are "A platform beats an application every time" and "All the smart people don't work for you."
OReilly Radar
- Monday, December 14, 2009
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WatchMouse Monitors 26 Popular APIs So You Don’t Have To
Website monitoring startup WatchMouse is launching a new service dubbed API-status.com today, a website that displays realtime availability and performance of popular, public APIs.
The lists of monitored APIs consists of 26 of the most heavily trafficked Web services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, SalesForce, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and others.
API-status.com calls and checks for a valid result on each of the APIs every five minutes from 42 locations across the globe. If the system detects an anomaly or delay of more
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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Screentoaster: new functionality
ScreenToaster is an online tool/service that lets you record, publish and spread video tutorials, demos, lectures and more. Benefit frm 3rd party video editing tools to rework your videos.
Beta test their recorder API. Tags: Tool Rudy wrote to tell me of the new functionality that they released today at ScreenToaster.com. You can now ...
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Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground
Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google's Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google's interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google's eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries, and Earth).
The API Playground will also become Google's official way to show Javascript Sponsor
You can currently try out and manipulate over 170 code samples in the Playground, ranging from simple tables,
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Burning Man Gets an API (and a Whole Lot More)
An API! This year the Burning Man organization is assisting with the launch of an API . With the API you get access to descriptions and locations of the Streets, Art, Camps and Events. You can learn more about the API project here . Burning Man's theme this year is evolution SMS! Foursquare!
OReilly Radar
- Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
The productivity level of the latest tools and techniques remains almost astonishing though the level of knowledge required of these teams is creeping up and up. Federated applications, atomized content and functionality, 3rd party product ecosystems through open APIs, and much more are required to establish a strong and resilient network effect which fends off competitors that are themselves bringing these potent new competencies to bear. In fact, one of the things we emphasize over and over again in our conference workshops and in Web 2.0 The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure.
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Google Analytics Gets an API
Google Analytics , Google's tool for generating detailed visitor stats for web sites, just launched an API, which will finally allow developers to create desktop and online tools that can use and mash up data from Google Analytics with other data on the Internet. This API will also allow developers to create mobile interfaces for Google Analytics for Android or the iPhone, for example.
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Developers who are already familiar with other Google APIs should feel right at home with the Google Analytics API , as it uses the same protocol as Google Calendar,
ReadWriteWeb
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Mashery: Untold Secrets Behind Managing an API
When publishing an API, there are two preparatory steps to take before jumping into implementation. These developers will give you the kind of feedback you need so that you can rapidly refine your API. Iterating quickly and listening to users of your API will help you build a healthy user community and create evangelists.
Editor's note: this is a "Sponsor Post" by one of our long-term sponsors. These posts are clearly labeled as such, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers.
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, February 2, 2009
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